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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

August 4, 1687: Cossack Rada (Council) on the river Kolomak elects Ivan Mazepa Hetman of Ukraine. August 4, 1941: after severe battles Soviet forces retreat from Kirovohrad. August 5, 1919: a Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine is formed under anarchist Nestor Makhno's command. August 5, 1941: Odesa is besieged, its heroic defense to go down in the history of World War II. August 6, 1944: Drohobych is taken by units of the Fourth Ukrainian Front. August 6, 1975: the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR is awarded the Order of the Friendship of Nations. August 7, 1225: Prince Danylo of Halych wins a battle on the river San for the Halych-Volyn Principality. August 7, 1968: the Dniprodzerzhinsk hydroelectric station begins generating. August 8, 1968: USSR Council of Ministers resolves to found the State Institute of Culture in Kyiv. August 8, 1985: withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan begins. August 9: Construction Worker's Day. August 9, 1945: the Soviet Union begins hostilities against Japan. August 9, 1959: Novy Kryvy Rih Mining and Concentration Combine yields first products. August 10, 1628: the historic Swedish warship Vasa, caught by a gust of wind, keels over and sinks a short distance out of Stockholm. August 10, 1700: Russia and Turkey sign the Peace Treaty of Constantinople.

 

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